By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
This summer has been full of great weather and multiple activities centered around enjoying the outdoors. With COVID restrictions subsiding and programs returning to full capacity, the Sherborn Council on Aging held its weekly walk of the Holliston Rail Trail.
Sand sculptors battle for Golden Shovel
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
Sunday gifted us beautiful weather — the best July has to offer — and the sun motivated families to get to Farm Pond in Sherborn for the 38th annual Sand Sculpture Contest. Shovels and pails in hand, everyone secured plots and started building. Concepts ranged...
Kids bug out at Sherborn playground
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
Though school just let out, children of the Dover-Sherborn area were up early last Friday morning to attend a special summer class outdoors. Bryan Man, better known as Professor Bugman, lent his expertise to friends at the Sherborn playground for an insect safari.
Big Truck Day brings smiles to Dover
By Emily Rast
Hometown Weekly Intern
Dover Library was the place to be on Thursday afternoon, as another successful Big Truck Day hit the street.
If the lucky kids at the event weren’t playing in the...
DSHS class of ’22 graduates
By Emily Rast
Hometown Weekly Intern
A beaming crowd of family and friends looked on last Thursday as Dover-Sherborn’s class of 2022 walked at a wonderful graduation ceremony.
Students were likely anticipating a late-spring scorcher on...
Powissett hosts Fall Fun on the Farm
This little girl enjoyed the touch a tractor event during Fall Fun on the Farm.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Normally, Dover’s Powisett Farm hosts two giant festivals: one in the fall and one in the spring. However, when COVID-19 hit and giant gatherings...
Up In Smoke BBQ returns outdoors
Linda Pettit briefly addressed the crowd while Sean Fullerton took a quick break from performing.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In the name of safety, The Friends of the Dover Council on Aging held their annual Up in Smoke Barbecue in the midst of...
Super Awesome Fun Time returns outdoors
By and large, the librarians stuck to the classics like 'The Wheels on the Bus', 'Sticky Sticky Bubblegum' and 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.'
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
“The more we get together, together, together, the more we get together, the happier...
Kids play, adults listen at concert
To their credit, the band never let the kids playing distract them from their music.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd were famously named after a high school gym teacher who disapproved of their long hair.
Memorial Day celebrated in Dover
Sergeant First Class Rambo Tran talks about his time in the military, which included being deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
This year’s Memorial Day exercises were supposed to take place on the Dover Town House lawn, but...
DTL hosts six local poets
Slam poet Jamele Adams asked the crowd to fill the chat section with anything positive that was happening in their lives.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In celebration of National Poetry Month, on Wednesday night, the Dover Town Library invited six local poets,...
Elm Bank opens for the season
Elm Bank's famous goddess statues got a deep cleaning this year, performed by the same man that originally restored them.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Gardens at Elm Bank, which sit on the Dover border, opened for the season on April 1 -...
DSCFF decries Anti-Asian violence
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Months ago, some of Dover’s Chinese residents created the Dover-Sherborn Chinese Family and Friends (DSCFF) organization, in large part to make sure they would have a voice in the community. While much of that speaking out was, and still is, about school reopening plans, town...
Seniors calling COAs for vaccination help
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
As anyone that has tried to register for college classes, apply for government-assisted health insurance, or even buy a concert ticket online knows, for even the most tech savvy among us, signing up for things on the internet can be a confusing and frustrating process....
Storm brings differing snow totals
Medfield's Austin Verge and Garrison Schilling serve a customer after they get their generator going.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last week’s snowstorm (the earlier one, which is depressing to write) was believed to be unique in that just a few miles could...
CCBC presents building options
These are the four options as seen from the street, however they do not represent exactly what the buildings would look like.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Monday, the Community Center Building Committee (CCBC) met to discuss the four options for the new...
December snow brings community outdoors
This snowboarder drew plenty of intrigued looks every time he went off a jump he’d made at Needham High.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Because of COVID-19 and the subsequent social distancing protocols enacted to slow its spread, this year, partaking in outdoor...
Chinese-American group established in DS
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With an expanding Chinese-American population, it may have been only a matter of time until Dover and Shebrorn had a community organization for its citizens with Chinese heritage. But somebody still had to do the hard work: creating leadership positions and filling roles on the...
Festival of Trees adapts to pandemic
The tree with the fake twenty dollar bills (so nobody can pluck one off) was getting the most attention from raffle participants.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Festival of Trees at the Gardens at Elm Bank looks a little bit different this year....
Community Center Building Committee outlines options
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last Tuesday, the Dover Community Center Building Committee met via Zoom to outline the three different options for the new community center: a 13,000 square foot project at a projected total cost of $10m, a 15,000 square foot project at a projected total cost of...
